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H. E. HENWOOD.

Car-Coupling.

No. 223,733. Patentd Jan. 20, 1880.

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HORACE E. HENWOOD, OF HAMILTON, ONTARIO, CANADA.

CAR-COUPLING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 223,733, dated January 20, 1880.

Application filed November 7, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HORACE EDWIN HEN- WOOD, of Hamilton, Province of Ontario, Dominion of Oanada,have invented anew and Improved Oar-Coupling; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

My invention is an improvement upon the automatic car-coupling forming the subject of United States Letters Patent No. 143,011; and it consists in the construction and arrangement of parts, as hereinafter described and claimed.

In accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, Figure 1 is a longitudinal central section of a draw-head provided with Fig. 2 is an end view of the same.

The draw-heador bumper A has a cavity or chamber of the usual form, except that it is provided with a shoulder at a, 011 which the slotted link B rests when held in position for entering an opposite bumper.

A lever, O, is pivoted between lugs b on one side of the bumper A, and curves over the A pin, D, is attached to the lever C, and projects down through a slot, 0, The lower end of said pin is beveled, as shown, to adapt it to be raised by and glide over a link entering the cavity of the bumper, so as to couple cars automatically.

In order to raise the pin D for uncoupling, I attach a chain to the lower free end of the lever and pass it over pulleys, (not shown,) from which it branches to either side and top of the car.

In the aforementioned patented coupling a similarly-beveled coupling-pin is attached to a weighted lever and projects up through a slot in the lower side of the bumper.

By my construction almost the entire Weight of the lever O is available for holding the pin D engaged with the link B, and it does not require attachment of a ball or other form of weight to its outer end for that purpose. Thus I am enabled to employ a lever of less weight than is practicable in the former invention.

that it may be readily detached and another substitutedwhen required. The lever is enlarged or thickened at the point of attachment and the pin D inserted in an oval-shaped hole formed thereat, and secured by spring-pins d d, as shown in Fig. 1.

- The lever F is pivoted on the same pin with the lever G, and serves to depress the inner end of the link B, when required for the purpose of coupling cars of dissimilar height.

I provide the lower side of the bumper A with a hole, e, to adapt it for use of the ordinary coupling-pin in case of necessity.

I do not claim a lever pivoted to the top portion or corner of a draw-head and extending across the same.- Such construction and arrangement would not effectuate my objects,

which are to have such length of lever that it will impose on the coupling-pin a sufficient weight to hold it engaged with the link when the cars are in motion, and to have the. lever conform as much as practicable to the shape of the top and sides of the draw-head, so that HORACE EDWIN HEN WOOD.

Witnesses:

A. W. BROWN, D. STEELE, Jr. 

